Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

should do to you, do ye even so then; for this is the
law and the prophets.
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the
gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be that go in thereat;
because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find
it."
Never should a worker encourage one who is in
need of instruction and help to go first to human
agencies for an understanding of his duty. It is our
privilege as laborers to pray together and to
counsel together; but we are individually to seek
God to know what he would have us do. When the
Lord impresses the mind of one of his servants that
he is to go to a certain place to labor, that man is
not under obligation to go to a human being to
know if it is right for him to do this.
It is a wrong education to teach our people to
lean on human aids, instead of going to the Lord in
prayer. The enemy of souls has been the instigator
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